May

8

Benitez really has balls of steel

Filed Under Managers, Money, Premiership, Transfers | 13 Comments

You have to admire Rafa Benitez. Peter Crouch hardly gets a look in all season, the manager preferring to play the hard working but goal shy Kuyt ahead of him and deciding he’ll keep the frankly rubbish Voronin over him, yet there’s a £15m price tag slapped on his head.
Amazing. Crouch is a decent Premier [...]

Feb

18

Weekend thoughts

Filed Under FA Cup, La liga, Money | 4 Comments

Arsenal weren’t interested in the FA Cup game on Saturday. United deserved the win but Arsenal fans deserved more from their team. While people talk about psychological advantages and all that, the extra game or games that United have to play might be telling.
Sheffield United v Boro was worse than Chelsea v Liverpool last week. [...]

Feb

9

It’s all about the football

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It’s nice when a player is honest about why he joined a club. Sometimes it’s because it’s a big, important club. Sometimes it’s because he wants to work with a particular manager. Most of the time it’s about money. Which is exactly the case with Benjani who moved from Portsmouth to Man City.
Speaking about his [...]

Feb

7

Bad idea

Filed Under Idiots, Media, Money, Premiership | 16 Comments

Is this the worst idea ever? The English Premier League is considering playing some matches overseas.
At a meeting in London on Thursday, all 20 clubs agreed to explore a proposal to extend the season to 39 games. Those 10 extra games would be played at venues around the world, with cities bidding for the right [...]

Feb

4

A Sad Day Indeed

Filed Under Football, Money, Sad | 2 Comments

For all of you who want to commemorate the Munich air crash, what better way than a commemorative cashmere scarf? It’s a fucking snip at £49.99 and a whole ten pounds goes to charity.
Alternatively, the similarly-priced commemorative shirt is a real eye-catcher.
This takes the piss. Rather than debating whether to have a minute’s [...]

Dec

21

I will boo the failures, thugs and cowards

Filed Under Animals, Fans, Idiots, Money, Newspapers, Premiership, Sad, Violence, Youngsters | 1 Comment

I find it a little bit sickening - not to mention hypocritical - that managers and players are calling for an end to abuse from fans in the same week that Man Utd players have been accused of having gang-sex with a 19-year-old girl at their Christmas party.
Respect has got to be earned, and I’ve [...]

Nov

28

Comedic potential

Filed Under Champions League, Money | 5 Comments

How funny would it be if thousands of Liverpool fans marched to Anfield tonight to support flat-broke manager Rafa Benitez and then they got beaten by Porto?
I wonder how long they’d be singing his name then.

Nov

25

Thank god the internationals are over

Filed Under Defending, Idiots, Managers, Money, Premiership | 6 Comments

A few thoughts from watching MotD tonight:
I’d forgotten John Carew played in England now. What’s his problem? A goal per game at Rosenborg, 1 in 4 at Valencia, 1 in 3 at Roma, 1 in 2 at Besiktas, 1 in 3 at Lyon and he can’t get 90 minutes at Villa?
I’d forgotten about Jonathan Woodgate, [...]

Nov

15

There Is Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is Forever Engerland

Filed Under FIFA, Football, Money | 12 Comments

This debate about foreign players seems to brought out the xenophobia in many. The FIFA proposal seems straightforward enough, where each club must name eight players who have been “locally trained” and limit the number of “foreigners” to five; apparently, this would allow homegrown talent to flourish, apparently.
While this appears to be a good [...]

Oct

21

Drogba 4 Chelsea 4 ever 2gether 1 love

Filed Under Fans, Idiots, Managers, Money | 1 Comment

I’m unsure as to what was the most revolting spectacle: Drogba kissing his shirt before throwing it into the crowd; the fans fighting to get it; or the manager claiming that Drogba was just an innocent lad who’d accidentally said a few things he didn’t mean.

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